Thank you for your bug report, that's a bit weird that you could remove colord though since that's a depends of gnome-control-center
Could you give the output of those commands? - dpkg -l | grep colord - dpkg -l | grep gnome-control-center - dpkg -S org.freedesktop.ColorHelper the title is also misleading, the error indicates a missing schemas which is a file on disk, having the service not active doesn't prevent g-c-c to start ** Changed in: gnome-control-center (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Low ** Changed in: gnome-control-center (Ubuntu) Status: New => Incomplete -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-control-center in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1804785 Title: aborts/fails without colord daemon installed/running Status in gnome-control-center package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: Version: 2:3.28.1-0ubuntu2 System: Ubuntu 18.04 the gnome-control-center should not fail/abort without colord, but just show up a message like it does when network-manager is not installed for wifi settings: $ gnome-control-center (gnome-control-center:26725): GLib-GIO-ERROR **: 10:04:02.402: Settings schema 'org.freedesktop.ColorHelper' is not installed Trace/breakpoint trap To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-control-center/+bug/1804785/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp